"There are contradicting cost-benefit analyses about Aadhaar, the paper stated. The government, in a paper put out by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, claims that till date it has saved about Rs 14,672 crore using Aadhaar through DBT schemes. But a Canadian non-profit, International Institute of Sustainable Development, has claimed that the government has incurred a loss of `97 crore"
"Le gouvernement du Sénégal, à travers le ministère des Mines et de la Géologie en collaboration avec la Fondation Maya et l’ International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), a entamé, hier, des discussions sur les infrastructures durables et la méthodologie SAVI."
"Costly efforts to reduce toxic algae blooms on Lake Winnipeg by controlling the amount of nitrogen flowing into the water could have little to no impact, according to the results of a decades-long study. Scientists working in the Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario conducted a whole-ecosystem experiment on one lake, beginning in 1969."
"During the same period, carbon-emitter fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas remained the largest beneficiaries. While subsidies to renewable energy increased by over Rs 6,700 crore ($1.05 billion), they accounted for less than 10 percent of the energy subsidies of the central government, according to this report by the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD), a think-tank, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a think-tank and ICF India, a consultancy."